(1a) Medieval and Early Modern Economic History. Individual Research. Since the completion of my doctorate my researches have allowed me to investigate many aspects - industrial, agrarian, urban, commercial and financial - of the economic and social history of medieval and early modern England, Continental Europe and the Afro-Asian land mass. During each phase of this research programme I have presented the result of my investigations, or at least certain aspects of them, in a series of lectures given both in the UK and abroad and in a number of studies (referred to below by enumeration in "List of Publications": M= Medieval, R=Russian. A indicating article, B book and E edition).

Initially these were closely related to the primary focus of research on medieval mining and metallurgy as I studied not only production trends and organization (M-A2,4,15,17,18,20,22 and B1/2) but also technological change (M-A9,12,20, 31), labour force organization (M-A3, 6, 8, 27 and B2/2), markets and commercial organization (M-A5, 7, 11, and 18-9). Subsequently, however, certain of these areas of investigation evolved an independent identity as research was pursued into aspects of medieval Scottish economic development (M-A 21, 25) and the operation of English urban property markets and of English peasant economy and society, particular attention being paid in this latter field to questions about social structure (M-A14, 23), land use (M-A1, E1[B1/ii-1]), consumption (M-A10,13, E2[B1/ii-2), and the organization of the land market (A14). This phase of archival researches has now been completed and I have begun to write a series of books based on these materials (M-B 1-2 and B 1(ii) 1-2.)

(1b) Medieval and Early Modern Economic History. Group Research. A collective research programme, funded by the ESRC, evolved over the years 1982-1993 from one of the other areas of my personal research - commodity market structures and transactions costs in the international economy. This formed the basis for an investigation into the emergence of the international economy from the highly fragmentalized structure which characterised the later middle ages to the much more integrated market which, particularly during the century before 1740, had begun to assume distinctly modern characteristics. Its objectives were to examine the falling costs of transactions (particularly financial) entered upon by English merchants operating within the early-sixteenth century international economy and to assess the impact of these changes on the English economy. The preliminary stage of this project was funded by the ESRC and from 1982-1985 I acted as project director (HR8205/1, THE ANGLO-NETHERLANDS BILL MARKET AND ENGLISH EXPORT FINANCE) with the objective of developing a RAPPORT-data base system for the computer storage and manipulation of data contained in mercantile account books and the national customs records. This system was subsequently up-graded to an INGRES-data base system and employed in a second stage of the research programme, again funded by the ESRC, which has been undertaken under my direction (R 000 23 2851: ENGLAND AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY, 1544-1561) during the period 1991-1993. Upon this work, now brought to successful fruition, initial working papers were given to the Workshop on Quantitative Monetary History organized by H van der Wee and E van Cauwenberg (Brussels 1982) and the International Urban History Group (Amsterdam 1991), exploratory studies were written on particular commodities (M-A16, A26, B1/i-2) and upon the operation of international money markets (M-A4/1, A24-5, A27, A29-36; B2/1 intro.).

With the successful completion in 1993 of this research programme and during the subsequent writing-up of its results, an associated but entirely new pilot project for a major research programme, linking my work on the history of early modern international trade and Russian economic development, (283RR02009, THE LAST FRONTIER: COMMERCE AND SOCIETY IN THE NORTH PACIFIC, 1743-1844 ) - was started with financial support from the British Academy

A new research initiative was also launched at Edinburgh University in 1995 concerning patterns of economic development in Medieval and Early Modern European economic development. See http://www.ianblanchard.com. In the next year, following a presentation concerning European economic development, 450-1340 AD, research was undertaken on developments in the late Middle Ages 1340-1540 AD when Central-, South-eastern Europe played a central role in the process of economic change. The preliminary ideas on this latter theme have been presented during the autumn semester 1997 at Budapest and a research seminar was held at Warsaw on the 24-25th October of that year to discuss these ideas. On the basis of subsequent discussions with the Austrian, Hungarian and Croat colleagues above, a research group was formed in May 2000 with the objective of writing a new economic and social history of medieval Central-, South-eastern Europe. It was agreed, that the initial focus should be on Medieval Hungary and that would be organized preparatory to the writing of a new economic and social history of medieval Hungary. It was also decided that onging post-graduate research undertaken at the Department of Medieval Studies at the CEU, Budapest on topics associated with the project should be displayed when appropriate to a wider audience at the session sponsored by the department at the International Medieval Congress held at the University of Leeds each year. Papers by members of the project or others working with it will on occasion be given at conferences and made available on this site.With the generous financial support of the Hungarian Academic Research Fund (OTKA) we were able to bring the initial phase, of hypothesis formulation, to a close in 2005 and commence on a new phase of detailed research concerning the economic and social history of medieval Hungary. The opening of this new phase in the project's evolution has been marked by a one-day conference held at the CEU, Budapest on 25th November 2005.Medieval Economic History of Hungary as reflected by archaeology and material culture. It was agreed at this conference that a supplementary meeting would be held in May 2006 to bring in additional participants and that a workshop presenting the work of the group and organising publication would be conducted in January 2007


(2) Modern Russian Economic History, 1700-1927/8

Supplementary and parallel to the personal and group work referred to above on medieval and early modern economic history I have also undertaken research into modern Russian and East European economic history, again initially focussing research on mining and metallurgy. Initially this work was also connected with the development of mining and metallurgical production (M-A18 and R-A1, A5-6) but subsequently this research was extended to encompass other aspects of the economy in a study of Russian economic growth in the eighteenth century (R-B1) aspects of which provide the basis for a paper given at the Fifth World Congress for Central and East European Studies held at Warsaw 6-11 August 1995 (R-A2) and papers presented at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (ex-VIe Section de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études) and Sorbonne, Paris in 1996 (R-A3). Initial investigations are also currently in progress on long-term patterns of economic change with particular reference to the process of industrialisation 1867-1927/8 (R-A4).

Medieval and Early Modern Economic and Social History

1. (i) Books

1. International Lead Production and Trade in the "Age of the Saigerprozess," 1460-1560 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte-Beihefte, Bd. 85, 1994). Pp. 376. ISBN 3-515-06461-3.

2. Mining, Metallurgy and Minting in the Middle Ages, four volumes, (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001- )

Vol. 1. Asiatic Supremacy, 425-1125 (2001), pp. xiv, 550. ISBN 3-515-07958-0
Vol: 2. Afro-European Supremacy, 1125-1225 (African Gold Production and the First European Silver Production Long-Cycle). (2001), pp. xxxv, 369. ISBN 3-515-07967-X
Vol. 3. Continuing Afro-European Supremacy, 1250-1450. African Gold and the Second and Third European Silver Production Long-cycles. (Stuttgart, 2005) pp. lxii + 706. ISBN 3-515-08704-4

3.The International Economy in the "Age of the Discoveries", 1470-1570. Antwerp and the English Merchants' World (Stuttgart: Studien zur Gewerbe-und Handelsgeschichte, Bd 29, 2009),pp x+288 ISBN 978-3-515-09329-3

(ii) Editions of Documents.

1. The Duchy of Lancaster's Estates in Derbyshire,1485-1540. Derbyshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, III (1971) Pp. 124. ISBN 0-950-17862-4

2. Edited Books.

1. Industry and Finance in Early Modern History . Essays presented to George Hammersley on the occasion of his 74th Birthday (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, VSWG-Beihefte, 98. 1992). Pp. 272. ISBN 3-515-05806-0. With Anthony Goodman and Jennifer Newman who assisted me in editing this volume.

2. Labour and Leisure in Historical Perspective, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, VSWG-Beihefte, 116. 1994). Pp. 198. ISBN 3-515-06595-4 and with my co-chairman of this session B-3a at the Eleventh IEHA Congress in Milan, 12-18th September 1994, Wray Vamplew, the official Congress volume of proceedings (Milano: Università Bocconi. 1994). Pp. 126.

3. Articles.

1. 'Population change, enclosure and the early Tudor economy', Economic History Review, Second Series, XXIII, 3 (1970) pp.427-445

2. 'Derbyshire Lead Production, 1195-1505', Derbyshire Archaeological Journal , XCI (1971), pp.119-138

3. 'The Miner and the Agricultural Community in Late Medieval England', Agricultural History Review, XX, 2 (1972), pp.93-106

4. 'Seigneurial Entrepreneurship: the Bishops of Durham and the Weardale Lead Industry, 1406-1529', Business History, XV, 2 (1973), pp.97-111

5. 'Commercial Crisis and Change: Trade and the Industrial Economy of the North-East, 1509-32', Northern History, VIII (1973), pp.64-85

6.'Stannator Fabulosus', Agricultural History Review, XXII,1 (1974), pp.62-74

7. 'English Lead and the International Bullion Crisis of the 1550s' in D C Coleman and A H John (eds), Trade, Government and Economy in Pre-Industrial England (1976), pp.21-44

8. 'Labour productivity and work psychology in the English mining industry 1400-1600', Economic History Review, Second Series, XXXI, 1 (1978), pp.1-15

9. 'Resource depletion in the European mining and metallurgical industries, 1400-1800' in A Maczak and W N Parker (eds.) Natural Resources in European History (Washington, 1979), pp.85-113.

10. 'Consumption and Hierarchy in English Peasant Society, 1400-1600', Chicago Economic History Workshop Papers, No.20 (1980), pp.1-12

11. 'England and the International Bullion Crisis of the 1550s' in H Kellenbenz (ed.), Precious Metals in the Age of Expansion (Nürnberg: Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Bd.2 1981), pp.87-118

12. 'Lead Mining and Smelting in Medieval England and Wales' in D W Crossley (ed.), Medieval Industry (London: Council of British Archaeology, Research Report No.40, 1981), pp.72-84

13. 'Konsumpcja ne wsi angielskiej, 1580-1680 (English Peasant Consumption. The End of an Epoch, 1580-1680)' Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnij XXX,1 (1982), a prècis of which was published in the Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Economic History, Budapest 1982,

14. 'Industrial Employment and the Rural Land Market, 1380-1520' in R M Smith (ed.), Land, Kinship and Life Cycle (Cambridge: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, 1, 1984 ), pp.227-276

15. 'The British Silver-Lead Industry and its Relations with the Continent, 1470-1570. An Outline of Research' in E Westermann (hrgb.), Montanwirtschaft Mitteleuropas vom 12 bis 17 Jahrhundert. Stand, Wege und Aufgaben der Forschung (Bochum: Der Anschnitt, Beiheft 2. 1984), pp.179-188

16 'The Continental European Cattle Trades, 1400-1600', Economic History Review, Second Series, XXXIX (3) 1986, pp.427-460. Reprinted in D Irwin (ed.),Trade in the Pre-Modern Era, 1400-1700 (Oxford: 1995)

17. '"Real Money" and "Money of Account": Reflections upon Medieval European Monetary Systems" in H Witthoft et al. (eds.) Die historische Metrologie in den Wissenschaften (Ostfildern: Verlag Scripta Mercatura. 1986) pp.192-200

18. 'Labour force organization and labour productivity in the English mining industries 1400-1700' in Instituto Inter-nationale di Storia economica "Francesco Datini", Prato. XVIIIa Settimana di Studio, "Miniere e Metallurgia secc. XIII-XVIII," 11-15 aprile 1986 (Prato: 1999) ISBN 88-87662-00-2

19. 'Europaïschen Silberproduktion und sudamerikanische Bergbaukrise des späten 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts' in E Westermann (hrgb.), Quantifizierungprobleme bei der Erforschung de europaïschen Montanwirtschaft des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts (St Katherine: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag. 1988), pp.99-126.

20. 'Weights and Measures in the Mineral and Metal Trades of the Middle Ages' in J Cl Hocquet et al. (eds.), Metrologische Strukturen und die Entwicklung der alten Maßsytem (St Katharine: Verlag Scripta Mercatura. 1988), pp.62-88

21. 'Technical Implications of the Transition from Silver to Lead Smelting in Twelfth Century England' in L Willies and D Cranstone (eds.), Boles and Smeltmills: Report of a Seminar on the History and Archaelogy of Lead Smelting held at Reeth, Yorkshire, 15-17 May 1992 (Matlock Bath: Historical Metallurgy Society, 1992), pp. 9-11

22. 'Lothian and Beyond: the Economy of the "English Empire" of David I' in John Hatcher and Richard Britnell (eds.), Progress and Problems in Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Edward Miller (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 23-45.

23. "The Origins of Medieval Western European Silver Monometallism, 420-720 A.D." in Rainer S. Elkar, Cornelius Neutsch, Karl Jürgen Roth & Jürgen H. Schwacht (hrsg.),"Vom rechten Maß der Dinge" Beiträge zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte. Festschrift für Harald Witthöft zum 65 Geburtstag (St Katherine: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 2 Bd., 1996), I, pp.33-58.

24. 'Social Structure and Social Organization in an English Village at the Close of the Middle Ages: Chewton 1526' in Edwin Brezette de Windt (ed.), The salt of common life: individuality and choice in the medieval town, countryside and church. Essays presented to J A Raftis on the occasion of his 70th birthday (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, West Michigan UP, 1996), pp. 307-340.

25. 'Credit and Commerce: from the Mediterranean to the North Sea economies in the Early Sixteenth Century' in Herman Diederiks and David Reeder (eds.), Cities of Finance: Proceedings of the colloquium. Amsterdam, May 1991 (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996), pp. 21-33.

26. 'Northern Wools and Netherlands Markets at the Close of the Middle Ages' in Grant G. Simpson (ed.), Scotland and the Low Countries 1124-1994 (East Linton: Tuckwell Press,The Mackie Monographs, 3. 1996), pp. 76-88.

27. "English Royal Borrowing at Antwerp, 1544-1574" in Marc Boone and Walter Prevenier (eds.), Finances publiques et finances privées au bas moyen âge. Actes du colloque tenu à Gand le 5-6 mai 1995 (Garant, Leuven-Apeldoorn: Studies in Urban Social, Economic and Political History of the Medieval and Modern Low Countries, no. 4. 1996), pp. 57-74.

28. "Thomas Gresham, ca. 1518-1579" in Ann Saunders (ed.),The Royal Exchange. Essays on the history and topography of a London institution (London: London Topographical Society, Publication no. 151. 1997), pp. 11-19.

29. "Sir Thomas and the House of Gresham: Activities of a Mercer-Merchant Adventurer," in Francis Ames-Lewis (ed.), Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College. Studies in the Intellectual History of London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Aldershot, 1999), pp.13-23. Paper presented at the Conference for Four Hundredth Anniversary of Foundation of Gresham College 1597-1997 held at Birkbeck College, April 1997.

30. "Times of Feast, Times of Famine: A critical examination of recent British research concerning market structures and trends in the production of carboniferous fuels, 1450-1850" in Paul Benoit and Catherine Verna (eds.) Le charbon de terre en Europe avant l'usage industriel du coke (Turnhout: De Diversis Artibus t. 44 [ns.7]. Proceedings of the XX International Congress of the History of Science, Liège 20-26 July 1997, vol. IV. 1999), pp. 61-75.

31. "International Capital Markets and their Users, 1450-1750" in Maarten Prak (ed.), Early Modern Capitalism. Economic and Social Change in Europe, 1400-1800 (London & New York, 2001), pp 107-124. ISBN 0-415-21714-8

32. "The Economy, Town and Country: The Economic Context, c.1124-1540" in E Patricia Dennison, David Ditchburn and Michael Lynch (eds.), Aberdeen Before 1800. A New History (Phantassie, East Lothian: Tuckwell Press. 2002) 1-86232-119-1

33. Contributions on "Sheep and Goats", "Livestock leases"; "Consumption: Leisure" and "Michael Postan" in Joel Mokyr (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Oxford: OUP, 5 volume set, 2003) 0-19-51057-9

34. "Thomas Gresham," entry in Dictionary of British Economists, edited D. Rutherford (London: thoemmes continuum, 2004). ISBN 1-84-371030-7

35. New Dictionary of National Biography, essays concerning Sir Thomas and Sir Richard Gresham, Richard Clough and Stephen Vaughan (Oxford UP, DNB, 2004)

36. "Foreign Merchants in Early Modern Towns and International Market Intelligence Systems",Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, 10 (2004), pp. 175-180

37. "Cultural and Economic Activities in the Nomadic Societies of the Trans-Pontine Steppe”, Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, 11 (2005), pp.191-206

38. "Egyptian Specie Markets and the International Gold Crisis of the Early Fifteenth Century" in Lawrin Armstrong, Ivana Elbl, and Martin M. Elbl (editors) Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H. A. Munro (Leiden & Boston, 2007)

39."The Late Medieval European 'Integration Crisis' 1340-1540" in Troels Dahlerup and Per Ingesman (editors) New Approaches to the History of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Copenhagen: Historisk-filosofiske Meddelelser 104, 2009)

4. Joint Articles

1.'The Habsburgs and the Antwerp Money Market: the Exchange Crises of 1521 and 1522-3' in I Blanchard et al. (eds.), Industry and Finance in Early Modern History: Essays Presented to George Hammersley on the Occasion of his 74th Birthday (Stuttgart: VSWG-Beiheft, 98.1992), pp. 27-56. With Herman Van der Wee who provided some of the materials concerning exchange rates for this article.

Russian Economic History.

1. Books

1. Russia's "Age of Silver." Precious Metal Production and Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge,1989 ) Pp. xvi + 431. ISBN 0-415-00831-X

2. Articles

1. 'The Altai silver industry: the development of multiple provisioning systems in eighteenth-century Russia' in Ekkehard Westermann (Hrsg.), Bergbaureviere als Verbraucherzentren (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, VSWG-Beiheft, 130. 1997), pp.359-367

2. "Eighteenth-Century Russian Economic Growth: State Enterprise or Peasant Endeavour?" Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Bd. 45/4 (1997), pp.541-551

3. "Le développement économique en perspective historique: l'avenir de la Russie à la lumière de son évolution à l'époque moderene (1700-1914)" in Michèle Merger et Dominique Barjot (eds.), Les enterprises et leurs réseaux: hommes, capitaux, techniques et pouvoirs xixe-xxe siècles. Mèlanges en l'honneur de François Caron (Paris: Presse de l' Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1998), pp.381-392. An English translation entitled "Russian and Soviet Economic Development in Historical Perspective, c. 1700-1998" will be found in Elspeth Reid et aliis (eds.) Edinburgh Essays: Russia on the Edge of the Millenium. Intro by Dennis Ward. (Nottingham, 2000) ISBN 0-946134-57.

4. "Russian railway construction and the Urals charcoal iron and steel industry, 1851-1914," Economic History Review, Second Series, 53/1 (2000), pp. 107-126

5. "Water- and Steam Power: Complementary or Competitive Sources of Energy?" in Economia e Energia Secc. XIII-XVIII. Atti della "Trentaquattresima Settimana di Studi", 15-19 aprile 2002 (Florence: Instituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F Datini, Prato, Serie II- Atti delle "Settimane di Studi" e altri Convegni, No 34. 2003), pp. 725-736

6."Nineteenth-Century Russian and 'Western' Ferrous Metallurgy: Complementary or Competitive Technologies?" in Chris Evans and Göran Rydén. (eds.), Iron and Steel Making in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 129-150 ISBN 0-7546-3390-X

Invited papers at Symposia, congresses etc. 1994-2004

A. International Economic History Association

Co-organiser with B N Mironov of theme B-3a: Labour and Leisure in Historical Perspective held at Eleventh IEHA Congress in Milan, 12-18th September 1994. The text of the major papers in the session and an introduction by myself has been published as a volume in the proceedings of conference and all of the papers given at the session with an introductory interpretative essay on the subject appeared as a separate book, published in the series VSWG- Beiheft, Bd. 116 immediately prior to the conference in September 1994.

Papers presented at

Eleventh International Congress held at Milan, 12-18th September 1994. Theme on "The Changing Relationships of European Regions, 14th-18th Centuries". Chairmen A Maczak and M Prak.

Twelfth International Congress held at Madrid 24 to 28 August 1998. Paper on "The Long Sixteenth Century, ca. 1450-1650" session chairman E Landesteiner

B Other National and International Conferences and Symposia

Papers presented to, and sessions organized at:

1993. Public lectures at the University of Warsaw on "Cossacks and Tartars: The Pastoral Economies of the Trans-Pontine Steppe, 1550-1850" aspects of which have also been presented at research seminars at Essex, London (1989), Cambridge (1990), Belfast (1995)

1994 XXIX International Congress on Medieval Studies held at Kalamazoo, 5-8 May 1994. Session: "Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside and Church" Chairman Edwin B DeWindt. Paper published in the volume E de Windt (ed.), The salt of common life: individuality and choice in the medieval town, countryside and church. (Medieval Institute, West Michigan UP,1996).

1995 Colloque International: Finances publiques et finances privées au bas moyen âge (14e-16e siècle): intérêts individuels et gestion collective ? held Gand-Louvain-la-Neuve, 5-6 May 1995. Paper: "The English Crown and the Antwerp Money Market, 1542-1562", published in proceedings of conference 1996

1995 V. World Congress for Central and East European Studies held at Warsaw 6-11 August 1995. Session III-6 "An Earlier Transformation: The Formation of Capitalist Structures in Eighteenth-Century Russia". Paper "Eighteenth-Century Russian Economic Growth: Peasant Endeavour or State Enterprise ?" published in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Bd. 45/4 (1997)

1996 "Europe's Age of Silver, 1040-1240" public lectures given at the University of Warsaw and the Central European University, Budapest, 1996.

1996 Research Seminars on "Les travailleurs industrielles au moyen âge: les industries textiles et minières" et "L'evolution économique de la Russie en longue durée, 1725-1995", conducted at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

1997 4e Journées Braudèliennes. NIAS-MHS seminar on "Early modern capitalism", held at Wassenar, 23rd-24th May 1997 on "International Capital Markets, 1400-1800"

1997 XX International Congress of the History of Science, Liège 20-26 July 1997. Session SM35: "Le charbon de terre en Europe avant l'utilisation du coke" Paper "Times of feast, times of famine. A critical examination of recent British research concerning market structures and trends in the production of carboniferous fuels 1450-1850".

1998 ESTER-Seminar 1998, Jyväskylä, 6-11 October 1998: "The Long Sixteenth Century, ca. 1450-1650"

1999. BASEES Conference held at FitzWilliam College, Cambridge. 27 March 29 March 1999 Organizer session :Russian and Soviet Economic Development in Historical Perspective, c. 1700-1998. 11.30 am-1.00 pm, Sunday 28 March 1999

1999 Danish Academy of Sciences Conference "New Trends in Late Medieval Studies," Copenhagen, 23-26th August 1999: "The late mediæval European 'integration crises,' 1340-1540"

2001. "Russia and international iron markets, ca. 1740-1850". Paper presented at Conference on 'Trade, commodity markets and the mercantile contribution to industrialisation'. Session: "Commodity markets and industrialisation" held at The University of Glamorgan, 20-21 April 2001.

2001 "The Medieval World of Islam: an Environmental and Economic Analysis" paper presented at Session: "Climatic, Environmental and Economic Change in the Middle Ages". Sponsor: Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University. Held at International Medieval Congress 2001, Leeds, 9-12 July 2001

2002 "Water- and Steam Power: Complementary or Competitive Sources of Energy?" Paper presented at the Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini", XXXIV Settimana di Studi "Economia ed energia secc. XIII-XVIII" Prato, 15-19 April 2002

2003 "Foreign Merchants in Early Modern Towns and International Market Intelligence Systems" Segregation, Integration and Assimilation in Medieval Towns, Interdisciplinary Workshop, Central European University, Budapest, 20-22 February 2003

2003 "The Current Modelling of the Middle Ages: A Central and South-Eastern European Anomaly?" Paper presented at Session 1325: The Current Modelling of the Middle Ages: Aspects of Economic and Social History. International Medieval Congress 2003, Leeds, 9-12 July 2003

2004 "Egyptian Specie Markets and the International Gold Crisis of the Fifteenth Century" Paper presented at Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: An International Workshop in Honour of John Munro. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 12-14 March 2004

2004 "Cultural and economic activities in the nomadic societies of the trans-Pontine Steppe," Session title: Clash of cultures: Nomads at the frontiers of Christian Europe I-II.International Medieval Congress 2004, Leeds, 9-12 July 2004

2005 "The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade, c. 1320-1520: A Study of Environmental Change and Commercial Adaption" Paper presented at Conference on "Slavery, Freedom and Unfreedom in the Middle Ages" held at the University of Nottingham, 23 April 2005

2005 PUBLIC LECTURE "Medieval Crafts, Guilds and Industrial Development: Central-Western European Comparison" at OTKA Research School-1st Workshop. "Medieval Economic History of Hungary as reflected by archaeology and material culture", 25 November 2005

2006 "African Gold and European Specie Markets, ca 1300-1800" Paper to be presented at the Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini", XXXVIII Settimana di Studi Relazioni economiche tra Europa e mondo islamico. Secc. XIII-XVIII Prato, 1-5 maggio 2006

2006 "The Aristocracy and Urban Property Markets: The Case of Chesterfield, 1200-1500" paper to be presented at Session: Medieval Economic History II: In Memory of Sylvia Thrupp of the Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held at Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2006

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